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Redakteure: Roger Kercher (cfe@lineone.net) / Richard Wassell (rcw@netcomuk.co.uk ) - Centre for Europe (GB) In dieser Ausgabe:
1. Vorstellung von EuNetNews Auf der EuNet Konferenz in NL-Soesterberg letzten November versprach Centre for Europe - das Mitglied des Netzwerks aus Großbritannien- die Verantwortung für diesen Newsletter für das erste Jahr zu übernehmen. Die Redakteure werden später vorgestellt. Diese erste Ausgabe ist eine Art Pilotausgabe - und ist ein Bildungserlebnis für uns gewesen. Wir hatten bereits beschlossen:
Profile
Im Interesse sich im Netzwerk gegenseitig besser kennenzulernen, werden wir Profile von sowohl prominente EuNet Persönlichkeiten als auch von Mitgliedsorganisationen vorstellen.In dieser ersten Ausgabe stellen wir vor:
Bitte warten sie nicht auf eine Aufforderung, bevor sie Material einsenden. Wir werden alles was Sie uns senden aufbewahren, so dass wir es in Zukunft verwenden können, wenn wir nicht sofort Platz dafür finden - und wir werden notwendige updates mit Ihnen klären, bevor wir das Material verwenden. Wie Sie nachstehend sehen können, ist es nicht notwendig , dass die Profile umfangreich sind. Es ist besser ein Vorgeschmack von den Interessen und Methoden ihrer Institution zu erhalten - und das Interesse der Lesern durch ständige Updates beizubehalten . Um Kooperation zwischen Partnern, außerhalb und innerhalb von EuNet zu motivieren, werden wir auch versuchen andere Netzwerke vorzustellen - die wahrscheinlich einigen aber nie allen EuNet Mitgliedern bekannt sind. Dieses erstes Mal stellen wir DARE vor (Ausbildung von Demokratie und Menschenrechte in Europa). Ereignisse Wir werden versuchen, Details von kommenden Ereignissen, Seminaren usw. zu veröffentlichen, wenn wir spezielle Details von Ihnen bekommen haben. Dies kann allerdings, logischerweise, nur eine Ergänzung ihrer üblichen Methode zur Publizierung von Veranstaltungen sein.... Sprachen Die offiziellen Sprachen von EuNet sind selbstverständlich Englisch und Deutsch. Beiträge für den Newsletter können in beiden Sprachen vorgelegt werden - oder in Französisch oder Italienisch - und werden allgemein in die Originalsprache veröffentlicht. Während wir nicht eine volle Übersetzung versprechen können, werden wir in Zukunft versuchen - mit Hilfe von deutsch sprechenden Freunden - sicherzustellen, dass wesentliche Punkte zu mindest in Englisch oder Deutsch zusammengefasst werden. Die Redakteure können auch Material in Niederländisch, Spanisch und Portugiesisch akzeptieren - aber nur für die Übersetzung ins Englische (sofern es die Zeit zulässt) mit einer Zusammenfassung in Deutsch. Bitte uns mitzuteilen, wenn Ihre Einrichtung überhaupt nicht in der Lage sei, unser Rundschreiben auf englisch zu lesen und zu benützen. Also können wir besser verstehen, inwiefern es nicht genügt, ausschließlich oder beinahe ausschließlich auf englisch zu schreiben. Ausschreibungen
Wir werden versuchen, relevante EU Ausschreibungen zu behandeln - aber nur, wenn wir finden, dass es etwas ist, womit die meisten Mitglieder nicht vertraut sind.
Letztendlich, und bitte beachten Sie dies, sind die Redakteure auf euch, die Mitglieder des Netzwerkes, angewiesen, Material zu erhalten. Beiträge - und nicht nur über ihre eigene Institution - sind immer willkommen, um die Kommunikation zwischen den Mitgliedern des Netzwerkes zu ermöglichen. Ausblick Ursprünglich haben wir einem Redaktionsschluss für künftige Ausgaben im Abstand von 2 Monaten angedeutet - d.h. Ende März, Mai, Juli, September, November. Wir werden versuchen, diese Redaktionsschlüsse zu beobachten , so dass die nächste Ausgabe in 2 Monaten unterwegs sein müsste. TOP
hintere Reihe: Hans-Christhard Eichhorst (D-Bonn), Nina Nørgård (DK-Svendborg), Thomas Heckeberg (D-Bonn), Wico Bunskoek (NL-Soesterberg).
Vordere Reihe, stehend: Richard Stock (F-Metz), Tomáš Sedlák (CZ-Jihlava), Willibald Richter (A-Graz).
Die Jahreskonferenz von EuNet in NL-Soesterberg (18.-20. November 2005). Democracy Dialogue Debate.
Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg, was the host for the first network conference since our foundation meeting in Bonn a year before. As such, it was of great importance as an indication of the network's state of momentum and morale. Your editors, who were unsure on arrival as to what they would find, were much encouraged - that we have a network with the strength of purpose, organisation and credibility to establish itself. Here to stay! EuNet operations are coordinated through two standing committees, reporting to the board:
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Waves of Democracy - led by EuNet member IUC Europe - is a cross-border project, linked to the European Parliament, for Europe houses/academies and international organisations. 2006 will be a pilot with a view to a more extensive project, involving a wider range of partners across Europe, in 2007. For this year, fifty young Europeans from twenty countries will gather for seven days in September - at Brandbjerg in Denmark. Their objective will be to draft a Citizens' Agenda. The participants will work in committees related to the five questions:
The full Waves of Democracy project envisaged for next year will involve groups of fifty young people from various countries meeting at the same time in several locations around Europe - and with a common mission. For further details please contact Nina Nørgård - ninanorgaard@hotmail.com at IUC. TOP
The EuNet website contains a full list of member institutions - with contact details. Please be sure to use it - in a vigorous network, contacts go on throughout the year and not only at the annual meeting! And please remember to send the editors any updates. The network needs to be kept up-to-date - on who is and who is not a member. Therefore, it's important for clarity (and for budgeting) that members settle their affiliation fee of € 500 early in the year. Also, as an encouragement, the treasurer will be charging an extra € 50 for each quarter beyond the year in question where affiliation fees remain unpaid. Thus your 2006 fee, if not paid by 1st April 2007, will cost you € 550. If you delay until 1st January 2008, the cost will be € 700. We are sorry to draw attention to these practical issues! TOP
Centre Robert Schumann (CERS) - led by EuNet chairman Richard Stock (centre-robert-schuman@wanadoo.fr ) and located at Scy-Chazelles, near Metz - exists first and foremost to promoting the work and ideals of the eponymous Father of Europe. Key objectives include familiarising the public with the European construct and developing through dialogue an understanding amongst young people of the challenges and difficulties Europe has to face. CERS sustains a number of permanent projects:
Das Europazentrum Robert Schuman (CERS) in Scy-Chazelles hat sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, das Andenken an Präsident Robert Schuman, den Vater Europas, zu bewahren sowie sein Lebenswerk fortzusetzen, der Öffentlichkeit die europäische Einigung nahe zu bringen und bei den Jüngsten wie den Erwachsenen gleichermaßen ein Bewusstsein für die Chancen und die Schwierigkeiten der Europäischen Union zu wecken, indem man sie aktiv an Überlegungen über die Zukunft Europas beteiligt.
Outre la
mise en valeur de l'œuvre du Père de l'Europe, la vocation du Centre Européen
Robert Schuman CERS) à Scy-Chazelles est de familiariser le grand public avec
la construction européenne, de développer chez les plus jeunes comme chez les
adultes la prise de conscience des enjeux et des difficultés de l'Union
européenne en les impliquant dans une réflexion dynamique sur le devenir de
l'Europe.
Le CERS
propose des informations européennes sommaires (distribution des supports
d'information du Parlement européen et de la Commission européenne) et des
conférences et/ou des expositions sur l'actualité européenne. En collaboration avec l'European Network for Education and Training (EuNet), il développe, notamment sur le site de Scy-Chazelles, une offre de formation européenne : formations à la citoyenneté des jeunes, stages d'apprentissage à l'interculturalité, stages professionnels franco-allemands et européens, etc. Le CERS facilite également la production d'événements européens pour le compte d'entreprises, de collectivités territoriales ou d'O.N.G. notamment de la Grande Région Saar-Lor-Lux-Rhénanie Palatinat-Wallonie.
2. Europäische Akademie Schleswig-Holstein The European Academy of Schleswig-Holstein was founded 1998 as a new European educational centre designed to have an impact on the entire Baltic Sea region. It is supported by organisations from Germany, Denmark and Belgium wishing to promote the European idea by offering educational and information events and meetings. The Europäische Akademie majors on three areas of work:
This year's events programme at the Europäische Akademie began with our international seminar (jointly arranged with Europäische Akademie Berlin ) on comparative agricultural models (11th-14th January).
At a joint
event with Europa-Union Schleswig-Holstein
(10th-11th March), we considered: Has
the political European Union failed?
3. Maison de l'Europe du Limousin The Europe House of Limousin aims to inform European citizens about the EU, develop European citizenship, form relationships between Limousin and other regions around Europe, and bring together association and local interests within the Limousin.
The activities we have planned for the early part of this year begin with the release of a new bulletin, prepared by two interns of ours and which will feature not only European politics and the European economy, but also cultural aspects such as customs and languages within member countries.
We also
plan to complete and to make effective our website which will be available at http://www.europe-limousin.net.
4. IUC-Europe
IUC-Europe was established in 1986 as Denmark's only Europe House. Since then, we have built an extensive network of contacts, partners and affiliates throughout Europe. IUC is headed by Nina Nørgård (ninanorgaard@hotmail.com) - who of course is also vice-chairman of EuNet and coordinator of Committee for Content and Methods. Nina is supported at Svendborg by head of office, Kirsten Stribley (ks@iuc-europe.dk). IUC is leader of the Waves of Democracy project (for more information visit our website's project section).
5. Salzburger Bildungswerk Salzburger Bildungswerk, operating through over one hundred local outlets throughout the Austrian province of Salzburg, is an institution focused on adult education in general. The Institut für Europa forms part of Salzburger Bildungswerk and concentrates on two main lines of activity - providing support in European subjects for the leaders of the local outlets as above, and arranging its own European events, always aimed at interested members of the public. The Institut's seminar - The EU today, the EU tomorrow - takes place on 1st April at the Brunauer Zentrum in Salzburg and will focus on the issues of enlargement, EU institutions and EU finance. Speakers include Thomas Heckeberg, plus experts from the universities of Prague and Tübingen. Das Salzburger Bildungswerk ist eine Einrichtung der allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildung. Es verfügt über mehr als 100 Außenstellen im österreichischen Bundesland Salzburg. Die Arbeit des Instituts für Europa des Salzburger Bildungswerks verläuft auf zwei Schienen: Es unterstützt die Leiterinnen und Leiter der örtlichen Einrichtungen bei Europathemen und bietet selbst eigene Europa-Veranstaltungen an. Zielgruppe ist immer die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Das Seminar "Die EU heute - Die EU morgen" am 1. April 2006, in Salzburg, Brunauer-Zentrum, wird sich auf die Themen EU-Erweiterung, EU-Institutionen und EU-Finanzen konzentrieren. Das Programm kann im Institut für Europa des Salzburger Bildungswerks angefordert werden. Salzburger Bildungswerk - Institut für Europa, Dr. Wolfgang Forthofer Imbergstraße 2 A-5020 Salzburg Tel: +43-662-872691-21 Fax: +43-662-872691-3 w.forthofer@sbw.salzburg.at - www.salzburgerbildungswerk.at TOP
There has never been a time in our networking where it is so important to keep our communication channels open to each other. We have at least one advantage today compared to past years; the facilities available to do this have never been so accessible. Of course though, come at a cost. As EUNET members we are required to provide an internet connection and for virtually all of us this means a broadband connection. With such a connection it is now possible to talk to each other at any time for no cost. For this to happen each of us has to register with SKYPE. SKYPE provides a voice to voice plus service over the internet. To enrol, download their service by going to www.skype.com Link and follow the instructions ensuring you click on the SKYPE to SKYPE connection only. Unless of course you wish to be able to connect to a normal telephone, for which there is a charge. Having enrolled on SKYPE it is then important that you make known your contact details to EUNET members. My SKYPE contact name is ‘rogerkercher' - and Richard Wassell's is 'rcw_cfe'.
I look forward to having conversations with you with the added feeling of not having the worry about the drain on our limited budgets that the normal telephone providers demand. Roger Kercher, Centre for Europe TOP
We must all have experienced networks which are too introspective - too intent on their own network culture, personalities, internal politics etc. It is very important to ensure that EuNet steers well clear of this self-defeating philosophy. Your editors believe it is essential, with this in view, to learn to work with other networks - both EuNet as a whole, that is, and member institutions. That way we remain open to fresh ideas and opportunities. We propose therefore to use the EuNetNews to introduce other networks with whom we, or some of us, might work. There are of course many such - your editors know some of them; but so will all of you. Please therefore suggest networks we might cover in future - or, better still, write an introduction yourself. Our first network profile is: DARE - Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe The DARE network was established in 2002 to promote and bring together across Europe the twin disciplines of human rights education (HRE) and education for democratic citizenship (EDC)... 34 institutions are currently in membership, including just three who are also members of EuNet - Centre for Europe, IUC and Sonnenberg-Kreis. DARE is ably chaired by Dr. Hannelore Chiout (chiout@adbildungsstaetten.de) - from AdB (Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten), who were the originators of the idea and who provide most of the administration for DARE. Richard Wassell (rcw@netcomuk.co.uk , Centre for Europe) became treasurer in 2005. The DARE website provides links to all network members - but, just to give a few examples, other institutions currently represented on the board are Centre for Global Education (GB), Partners Bulgaria Foundation, Mali Korak (Small Step - Centre for Culture of Peace and Non-Violence) (Croatia) and Human Rights Education Associates (Netherlands). Countries represented amongst the membership, other than as mentioned already, are Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland. DARE for the present works primarily through the EU Grundtvig 4 programme - with an initial three-year project due to complete later this year, a further three years' funding has been applied for. DARE members set great store by the interaction between HRE and EDC - the latter area, of course, corresponding more nearly with our own core work within EuNet. Happily, the European Commission has also been of that view. The network and its members are introduced in DARE's first publication, Why Dare? which is already in its second edition. A booklet featuring examples of good practice in HRE/EDC is planned to appear soon - as a first step in developing DARE-brand educational materials. An e-newsletter is produced a least quarterly - which EuNet members may subscribe to (free of charge, of course) on request from the editor, Wim Taelman (wim.taelman@vormen.org ). DARE incidentally operates exclusively in English. There have not been the resources to do other. The Grundtvig programme thus far has facilitated two main meetings each year - one focused on training for the staff of member institutions, one a conference aimed at the wider HRE/EDC community, media and public. This year's training event will be on gender mainstreaming - at Vilnius in April. Last December, the network was one of four partners responsible for a major conference in Berlin, designed as a culmination for the European Year of Education through Citizenship 2005. Those members who are partners in the project will also meet, to review and settle on the final stages of the current three-year phase, in Bucharest in June. DARE is highly conscious of the need for outreach to other networks and to the public beyond - and of the need to broaden the range of activities also. The network plans to grow - but gradually, with a maximum seven net new members per year and emphasis on those countries not represented within DARE at present. Admission criteria are relatively strict - but membership is very accessible in cost terms at €100 per year. Please consult www.dare-network.org or contact Richard Wassell (rcw@netcomuk.co.uk ) for further background on DARE - and to investigate ways of working with them. TOP
10. Lifelong learning and key competences Lifelong learning and key competences were the subject of a resolution by the Council at Lisbon in 2002. This whole area is integral to the: • Copenhagen process (for vocational education and training); and forms part of the programme known as Education & Training 2010. The programme centres on modernising and adapting education and training reflect: • the challenges of the knowledge-based society; Three "levers for success" were identified:
These aspirations contrast with a reality where: • only 10% of adults aged 25-64 take part in lifelong learning; almost 16% of young people within Europe still leave school early; nearly 20% of 15 year olds have serious difficulty with reading literacy; 77% of 18-24 year olds complete upper secondary education - as compared to a target of 85%. Hence, the imperative need to modernise education and training - but based on the key principles that: • reforms should be efficient and equitable; Eight key competences were identified:
These are however considered to be underpinned by basic skills, i.e. critical thinking, creativity, the European dimension and active citizenship. These, it is thought, are the sure ways to achievement of personal fulfilment, active participation and employability. http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/2010/et TOP
11. Calls for submission of projects Call for proposals on General Activities of Observation, Analysis and Innovation under the Socrates Programme (Deadline: 18th April 2006) This call has been published under Actions 6.1.2 (General activities of observation and analysis) and 6.2 (Innovative initiatives responding to emerging needs) of the Socrates Programme. The following priority themes are particularly welcome:
The total budget for the co-financing of projects is in the order of €3,6m. Financial assistance from the Commission may not exceed 75% of the total eligible costs.
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2006/c_032/c_03220060208en00340035.pdf
Call for submission of innovative co-operation, training and information projects Framework Action 5 - support measures The Commission aims to support innovative co-operation, training and information projects in the field of non-formal education. All applications must follow one of the following priority themes:
Eligible
candidates Non-governmental youth organisations, but also local or regional
authorities.
12. Disclaimer Opinions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect official EuNet policy.
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